As more customers demand that the products they buy – and the companies that produce them – become more sustainable, recycling has become of renewed importance. While recycling is an important way to reduce the waste sent to our landfills, it also offers both social and economic advantages. For instance, recycling reduces the demand for raw materials to produce items like toner cartridges. This scales down the damage or exploitation of communities and land often inherent in gathering these resources. Plus, recycling can help increase jobs in both manufacturing and recycling industries contributing up to $36.6 billion in wages.

Recycling tends to be overlooked by many companies. Only one third of all recyclable products are being recycled. To help you sort out the details, this article will outline why you should consider recycling your toner cartridges and how to get started.

In the United States, more than 500 million printer toner cartridges are sold every year, with 350 million ending up in landfills. This is a huge amount of waste, much of which can be reused by responsible cartridge remanufacturing operations. Recycling toner cartridges results in large benefits for our environment and for you to reduce your carbon footprint. For example: the average toner cartridge takes up to one thousand years to decompose so many end up in a landfill. During this time, they can leach toxic chemicals into the soil and groundwater contributing to air, soil and water pollution.

Recycled toner cartridges can be put to good use in the remanufacturing process. During this process, the cartridges are fully inspected, cleaned and repurposed as high-quality remanufactured toner cartridges. Reuse is the key of environmental responsibility so recycling your toner cartridges can help you become more sustainable.

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